The history of the fabric of the Hotel de Jouy
Hello,
Today, toile de Jouy fabric is a cotton-called "Indian" on which are represented with sets of characters or landscapes. The drawings are mostly monochrome, red or aubergine or sepia ecru background but can be translated into other colors, pink, light blue or navy, light green or dark gray or beige. Sometimes the colors are reversed, that is to say we can have drawings or sepia tone ecru colored backgrounds.
Originally, this type of painting was created in the workshops of the factory founded in 1760 by Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf on the town of Jouy-en-Josas (currently in Yvelines in France ). The location was chosen because of the presence of Bievre and its chemical qualities conducive to wash cloths. The factory quickly became one of the most important of Indienneries eighteenth century e and left his name in the history of decorative art.
This is especially the variety of printed patterns that made his reputation, thanks to artists, painters known as Jean-Baptiste Huet.
What is now called toile de Jouy is actually a small part of the factory production. Oberkampf also produced fabrics with polychrome decorations, cookies tastes time, were sumptuous.
The term Jouy is the trademark of a product manufactured only in Jouy-en-Josas. Same time Oberkampf, other manufactures, such as those Mulhouse, produced fabrics identical and the term has become something of a generic name.
The technique used for printing was a first step, the application on cotton fabrics pre-treated wooden boards engraved and coated with dye. Ten years later, in 1770, the wooden planks were replaced by flexible copper plates, which allowed them on the cylindrical drums and thus increase production mechanization.
The paintings were lying in the meadows around the factory several times depending on the progress of production, after washing cloths in the Bievre, then after the product application fixing, finally after dyeing.
I hope you learned something from this story.
soon
Jerome
